NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2014

Google has replied to a letter written on behalf of a dozen undisclosed female victims of the photo hacking scandal.

The unidentified man was mauled in front of a house, and police killed one of the dogs

A woman rode away in a wheelchair she stole from 65-year-old man in San Francisco's United Nations Plaza, police said.

Police ignored a sex attack by a minicab driver on a professional woman leaving him free to strike again 10 days later, a court heard.

A St. John's outreach group issued a public warning Thursday after sex workers called to report assaults involving gang rape and sodomy on the 'warn other workers' tip line

Every year ahead of the Muslim feast of sacrifice, a showroom in Indonesia swaps cars for hulking cows costing up to $25,000 each, seeking to lure a wealthy elite increasingly keen on ploughing money into celebrating their religion.

While Raqqa may have become known as the capital of Islamic State's self-declared caliphate, recent reports suggest growing resentment between ISIS soldiers and residents of the city.

One suspect died at the scene while two others got away, deputies said.

The discovery was made when doctors attended to a 22-year-old woman in Colombia who had been complaining of abdominal pains.

Tom and Jerry cartoons on television are being accompanied by a warning that they may depict scenes of "racial prejudice".

A new material synthesized by researchers could gather oxygen from the water around you.

A new map of the Earth's sea floor reveals massive underwater scars and thousands of previously uncharted sea mountains residing in some of the deepest, most remote reaches of the world's oceans.

Canadarm robotic technology has been adapted to perform breast cancer biopsies inside an MRI scanner, the Canadian Space Agency says.

Quebec's intergovernmental affairs minister has done something few people in Ottawa dare to do: he talked about the possible re-opening of the Constitution.

Google's doodle pays tribute to Kenojuak Ashevak. The late Inuk artist, best known for her Enchanted Owl, would have turned 87 on Friday.

The BBC presenter reportedly left the country three days early after being stopped by angry Argentinian Falklands War veterans at a roadblock.

Norwegian citizens were particularly amused/outraged (amuseraged) by the IOC's diva-like demands for luxury treatment during the Games

Article 8, the right to a family life, is behind many controversial rulings, such as allowing Iraqi Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, who mowed down Amy Houston, 12, to stay in the UK.

John Caudwell, the founder of Phones 4U, has separated from his wife Claire of 15 years while his eldest son Rufus, his youngest child by his ex-wife suffers severe agoraphobia.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will outline in a motion to the House of Commons Canada's plan for a combat mission against Islamic jihadists in the Mideast, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed in a statement Thursday evening, with a debate and vote expec

A Winnipeg couple says their whole family is being bullied because their daughter is transgender and they say the school division isn't doing enough to stop it.

Canada Post is honouring a number of legendary NHL defencemen from the league's Original Six era with its latest collection of postage stamps.

A pair of orphaned polar bear cubs from northern Manitoba are getting to know their new home at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo this week.

Gang members Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston have been found guilty of six counts of first-degree murder for the 2007 slayings of six people in a Surrey, B.C., highrise.

Two 12-year-old hockey players have been arrested in connection with a violent game in Winnipeg in February.

Health officials in British Columbia and Alberta are investigating whether enterovirus D68, which causes respiratory illness, is linked to polio-like symptoms in six young patients.

Saskatchewan has attracted international interest in a $1.4-billion large scale application of technology aimed at reducing harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants. The provincial Crown corporation SaskPower is hosting a major tour of its facilitie

Two Louisiana high school teachers have been charged after allegedly having a threesome with one of their male students.

A white Ohio woman is a suing a Chicago-area sperm bank after she received sperm from a black donor instead of the white donor she and her partner had selected.

Fabian Gerrior and his wife were hardly expecting to become a part of a murder mystery more than 175 years in the making when they bought a beautiful yellow house on the main drag of Guysborough, N.S.

Two dungeons, tunnels and a military shelter were found at Tokat Castle, during restoration at the Turkish site. The Wallachian prince is said to have been held hostage at the castle from 1442.

A missing Texas girl was found in Mexico Tuesday, 12 years after she went missing during a weekend visit with her mother.

Attention, all you spoiled Lower Mainland commuters out there who hate paying tolls for the special privilege of driving to work: The next time you get whacked in the wallet to cross the Port Mann bridge, just pay your toll, stop your whining and remember

`At least one British Bookie thinks marrying Amal Alamuddin may have been a shrewd political move

The federal government will announce on Friday the combat role Canada will play in the fight against ISIS, a day before the current 30-day mission ends, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper is ready to make the case for sending CF-18s, CBC News has learned.

The Harper government plans further changes to its oft-maligned veterans charter, hoping to take the political sting out of complaints by ex-soldiers promising to campaign against them in the next election.

Australia was sending two unarmed air force planes to support U.S.-led coalition combat operations against the Islamic State movement in Iraq, but would not yet launch its own airstrikes, the prime minister said Wednesday.

A Syrian official says 22 people, including 10 children, have been killed in twin explosions near a school in the central city of Homs.

Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, tells Associated Press that in September he sent the German justice and interior ministries a list of 76 men and four women who served in the so-called Einsatzgruppen death sqauds.

A farm in Lawrence County, Penn., has created a corn maze in honour of Pittsburgh Penguins great Mario Lemieux.

Ottawa's transportation committee has approved changing the name of the recently-opened Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge to the Vimy Memorial Bridge.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will announce today in the House that the Franklin expedition ship found last month in the Arctic has been identified as HMS Erebus, CBC News has learned.

An Ontario coffee roaster and grinder is suing Keurig for anti-competitive behaviour, claiming it is keeping the price of single-serve coffee pods artificially high for consumers.

Gainesville Police released Ashely Gabrielle Huff from jail this month after a lab analysis showed she was telling the truth about SpaghettiOs in her car.

The premier of the Northwest Territories is in the American capital promoting an "Arctic Gateway" to carry oil through the territory to international markets.

The RCMP has pulled its support from a handbook aimed at stopping young Canadians from being recruited by extremist groups, saying parts of the booklet have an "adversarial tone."

From his earliest days skiing icy moguls in his home province of Quebec, to pioneering ski film work, JP Auclair was one of the best skiers to ever emerge from Canada

A Scottish explorer once derided for his theories on the lost Franklin expedition has at last been honoured in the storied halls of Westminster Abbey in London, England.

A woman in northern Alberta has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for neglecting to watch her baby girl who toppled into a batch of homebrew and drowned.